07-31-2011, 08:50 AM
strip the line out of that reel, it is garbage.
guess I will be saying this for ever, it is my number one tip. Factory shipped rod and reel combos come loaded with garbage line. 100% of the time.
put on some nice Silver Thread AN40. this will get rid of most of your problems.
unfortunatly you picked up a plastic reel, zebco reels are pretty good untill thay started making them out of plastic. Look around for a zebco 202 or 33 clasic, even 404 or 808's are good. Look at garage sales, the old ones are the better ones, if they havent rusted out they live for ever... and the parts are pretty much interchangable.
the rino combo is not a bad combo, rino rod glow tip and rino closed face spinning reels. "low finance" they are equivilant to what the old zebco's used to be for the money.
guess I will be saying this for ever, it is my number one tip. Factory shipped rod and reel combos come loaded with garbage line. 100% of the time.
put on some nice Silver Thread AN40. this will get rid of most of your problems.
unfortunatly you picked up a plastic reel, zebco reels are pretty good untill thay started making them out of plastic. Look around for a zebco 202 or 33 clasic, even 404 or 808's are good. Look at garage sales, the old ones are the better ones, if they havent rusted out they live for ever... and the parts are pretty much interchangable.
the rino combo is not a bad combo, rino rod glow tip and rino closed face spinning reels. "low finance" they are equivilant to what the old zebco's used to be for the money.